I have been doing FCC challenges for around a month, and it was a pretty smooth journey so far. However, I have seemed to hit a roadblock, that I am unable to access APIs required to complete the intermediate projects due to cross domain restrictions and such. Of course, I have heard of ways to work around this like JSONP, and proxy sites but, to me, these don’t appear to be 100% reliable, or I have not come across some proper source which explains what exactly is this. This has made my experience in solving the projects really frustrating. I would appreciate links to proper documentation, or tutorials which explain exactly how JSON can be fetched cross-domain, preferably with real world examples.
Basically, if I were to end up developing an actual website which required access to APIs, what would be a step to step guide to accomplish this.
In the real world, you’d be installing an SSL certificate on your own site… and/or you’d be paying for API premium services so they’ll let you connect via SSL (vs. the freebie account that may or may not let you connect via SSL)
The catch-22 problem happens when one API you need, for example, requires you to connect via SSL (ex: Google), and then another API service you use does not allow you to connect to their service via SSL (because you have a freebie account)
So using the cors-anywhere link above, you’re connecting to an https server, which then proxy calls for you to connect to the non-https API server.
Thank you for your quick response.
That actually explains a lot, I am fairly new to this whole concept, and your answer helped clear a lot of that. I had dug around the forums, and found another post with a similar problem, using the same solution you suggested, and it worked! This takes a huge load off my mind, I had been searching almost all day for a solution, thank you for helping out!
